gimme
/ˈɡɪmiː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That which is certain; that which is sure to be the case.
Example Sentences
- "Gimme the ball."
- "He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] gem me, gim me, give me."
- "Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight / Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?"
- "Come on, Dad / Gimme the car tonight / I got this girl, I wanna…"
- "You have to swipe along to page three of Fifa's world rankings before catching sight of the Faroe Islands, perched in 114th place, nearly 70 spots below Scotland. But under Hakan Ericson, they no longer represent the gimme fixture most in world football once reckoned them to be."
- "Don't count two strokes for that — it was a gimme: if I wasn't holding the flag with my other hand for the next players waiting for the hole, it would have gone in."